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Updated: June 26, 2025
It was the age of cabalistic ciphers, like that of De Retz, of which Guy Joli dreamed the solution; of inexplicable secrets, like the Man in the Iron Mask, whereof no solution was ever dreamed; of poisons, like that diamond-dust which in six hours transformed the fresh beauty of the Princess Royal into foul decay; of dungeons, like that cell at Vincennes which Madame de Rambouillet pronounced to be "worth its weight in arsenic."
The trail of their muslin gowns and the light cloud of their veils made dazzling spots of brightness in the delicate frame of the June landscape. Each of these white-clad figures was followed by a long train of friends and relatives. "C'est joli a voir it's a pretty sight, hein, my ladies? these young girls are beautiful like that!"
And far into the night, through silent Cheapside, a rolling voice swelled through much laughter thus: "Gai Ion la, gai le rosier, Du joli mois de Mai." The next day there were heavy heads in London; but the next day, also, a man lay ill in the hut on the island of St. Jean. Antoine had sung his last song.
Settled on the review of Ornamental Gardening for Lockhart, and wrote hard. Want several quotations, though that is the bore of being totally without books. Anne and I dined quietly together, and I wrote after tea an industrious day. November 18. This has been also a day of exertion. Petersburg a joli cadeau and I take it very kind of my young friend.
It should be something appropriate." Visions of "Let dogs delight" passed through the under-graduate's mind; but it occurred to him that the poetry was English and that he did not know the air. Hence he contributed no suggestion. "Something about our houselessness," said Elvira. "I have it," cried Léon. And he broke forth into a song of Pierre Dupont's: "Savez-vous où gite Mai, ce joli mois?"
Without doubt Monsieur was rich; and in that case he might make a canal boat as pretty as a villa joli comme un chateau. And with that they invited me on board their own water villa. They apologised for their cabin; they had not been rich enough to make it as it ought to be. 'The fire should have been here, at this side. explained the husband.
Avez-vous le beau cheval de mon frere, oule joli chien de votre pere?" "No, no, Gray Wolf," shouts the motley group of assassins, rogues and pickpockets, even their hardened hearts appalled at his fearful words. "Mon Dieu! You cannot be so cruel!" "Tiens!" shouts the Gray Wolf, now maddened to desperation, and drawing his gleaming knife. "Voila! Canaille!
Looking up at the cage, with a nod and a smile, she cried, "Bon jour, joli Marie!" "Good-by, Madame," rejoined the parrot, proudly cocking her head on one side and winking at Miss Cassandra in the most knowing fashion, as if to say, "Two can play at that game."
When the fog the next day was dissipated, the Joli was not in sight. Toward evening, however, the ship was again seen. In a few days they discovered an inlet, which La Salle carefully examined from the mast-head. He judged it to be the Bay of Appalachicola, then called Espiritu Santo, on the Florida coast. They therefore pressed on westerly, hoping soon to reach the Mississippi.
'For many reasons, my dear Fergus, you must hold me excused. Or what say you to un petit pendement bien joli? against which awkward ceremony I don't warrant you, should you meet a body of the armed West-Country Whigs. 'And why should they use me so? said Waverley. 'For a hundred good reasons, answered Fergus.
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